containerd API 1.12.0-rc.0 — containerd

Welcome to the api/v1.12.0-rc.0 release of containerd! This is a pre-release of containerd The 13th release for the containerd 1.x API aligns with the containerd 2.4 release. Highlights Include media type in content create event (#13833) Add parent path to runc checkpoint options (#13699) Deprecations Deprecate "allow mount handlers" in shim info and replace with mount capability extension (#14002) Fix sandbox task API endpoints for non-runc runtimes (#13360) Please try out the release binaries…

Generic methods land in Go 1.27 — Golang Weekly

#​615 — August 28, 2026 Read the Web Version 🗓️ If you missed us last week, good news… we're back! As expected, Go 1.27 landed last week, but there's plenty more to get into today :-) __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly ⭐ Go 1.27 Released — We spent much of the previous issue anticipating this release, so we'll let it speak for itself, but 1.27 is now ready to go with the final release notes and Jesús Espino's Go 1.27 interactive tour covering the…

How big are factorials? — Eli Bendersky

The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer. It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to estimate the size (number of digits) of a factorial reasonably accurately. This post will start by stating how to do the estimate, and if you’re curious you can read on for the math background. Without further ado, the approximation is: \[\text{number of digits in…

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